Demetrius Grosse
Birthdate: February 26, 1981 (45 Years Old)
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Demetrius Grosse is an actor whose greatest visibility has been on major series such as FX’s Justified (2010-2015), NBC’s Heroes (2006-2010), and Cinemex’s Banshee (2013-2016), and whose first significant feature film role came in director/co-writer Chad Hartigan’s drama, This Is Martin Bonner (2013), premiering at the Sundance film festival where it won the NEXT Audience Award. Grosse was in the supporting cast of director Benson Lee’s Battle of the Year (2013), the 3-D dramatization of his b-boy dance documentary, Planet B-Boy (2007), starring Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Josh Peck, and Chris Brown, and released by Screen Gems/Sony Releasing.
Grosse appeared in a supporting role in the acclaimed, Oscar-nominated Disney version of the making of Mary Poppins (1964), the John Lee Hancock-directed Saving Mr. Banks (2013), with Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Colin Farrell, and Bradley Whitford. Grosse landed a small role in the N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton (2015), with O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell under F. Gary Gray’s direction.
Demetrius Grosse was cast by director-producer Michael Bay for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), starring James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, and Max Martini, and released by Paramount Pictures. Grosse then appeared in the Dwayne Johnson-starring sci-fi monster movie, Rampage (2018), with Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan under producer Brad Peyton’s direction for New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.
Grosse landed his first significant starring role in a feature in Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024), marking co-producer/co-writer Joshua Weigel’s directorial debut and co-starring Nika King and Elizabeth Mitchell, and released by Angel Studios. Grosse then debuted his a feature director-writer with the crime drama Godfrey (date to be announced), co-written with Jean Yi and Antonio Govin.
Personal life
Demetrius Grosse was born and raised in Washington, D.C. by his parents. Grosse attended and graduated from Gonzaga College High School. Mitchell then received an Andrew Carnegie Undergraduate grant to attend Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a degree in Drama. Grosse also did two semesters of study at Howard University College of Fine Arts and then studied drama at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Grosse’s height is 6’ 2”.
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Demetrius Grosse Movies
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- 2024 |
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
asReverend WC Martin
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
The true story of Donna and Reverend WC Martin and their church in East Texas, in which 22 families adopted 77 children from the local foster system, igniting a movement for vulnerable children everywhere.
- 2018 |
- 2016 |
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
asDS Dave Ubben
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
- -- | as Eric Williams, Grim Reaper
- -- | as Jaylen Mitchell
Facts About Demetrius Grosse
With Mr. President: Demetrius Grosse was selected at age 10 to interview then-Pres. Bill Clinton on the TV special, President Clinton Answering Children’s Questions.
Mentors: Grosse studied drama at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, where he had legendary actors Derek Jacobi and Fiona Shaw as teacher-mentors.
